The Computer/Console Gaming Thread

[prjkt]

We do have an advantage in that regard, for example when I was looking at iPhones when overseas, although they were about $50-$100 cheaper, they only came with 1 yr warranty whereas here its 2 years.

That might be the "express warranty" from the Manufacturer, but our consumer law also defines that products should stay operational under normal conditions for a "reasonable time" - a ~$800-1000 phone should last a lot longer than just two years

[i_amtrunks]

Crash bandicoot is as punishing as I remember. Crash 3 less so. Saving the best (2) for last.

Read lots of reviews saying the jumping was broken, but I think they have forgotten that the jumping was always this way, you had to be very careful, especially in the first game. Getting into a rythm always helped!

Died 37 times on the last level on the first island, every single one my fault. I was too impatient or took too long for every one. But the game never looked better. My only problem is my brain won't make up its mind whether I use the analog stick or buttons, I switch mid level all the time!

[Gutsman Heavy]

Read lots of reviews saying the jumping was broken, but I think they have forgotten that the jumping was always this way, you had to be very careful, especially in the first game. Getting into a rythm always helped!


lol, Crash 1 may have some real dick level design it's mechanically sound and every death no matter how annoying was my own fault.
Unless they mean that the jumping is different than the original, it is but only in 1 because they used the crash 2/3 movement for the remake of 1.

[DELTAprime]

lol, Crash 1 may have some real dick level design it's mechanically sound and every death no matter how annoying was my own fault.
Unless they mean that the jumping is different than the original, it is but only in 1 because they used the crash 2/3 movement for the remake of 1.

I remember an interview with some of the guys from Naughty Dog on Crash 1's development. The guys there were convinced the game was super easy, then SCEA's people tried to play it and got killed over and over. Turns out they had made the game so difficult that only people at Naughty Dog were able to play it and have fun with it, even then they died a hell of a lot. Once they realised their mistake they made the game much easier for the final release but it's still not an easy game.

Anyway, does anyone know of a place I can buy GTA 1 and 2 digitally? I remember Rockstar released the games for as freeware a while back but that site has been taken down and they are unavailable to purchase on Steam.

[prjkt]

here[/url and [url=http://www.myabandonware.com/game/grand-theft-auto-2-3w7]here (http://www.myabandonware.com/game/grand-theft-auto-3w6).

Thanks for reminding me, going to have to go back to these old ones again

[DarkHyren]

Anyway, does anyone know of a place I can buy GTA 1 and 2 digitally? I remember Rockstar released the games for as freeware a while back but that site has been taken down and they are unavailable to purchase on Steam.Really depends on if you want to download them for free somewhere (as prjkt mentioned you can get them there, since they were given free by Rockstar it's fine to do so) or you want paid for copies.
If you want them on steam then you will need to find an online key sites that has steam keys for the Grand Theft Auto Complete Pack Extended, which will give you GTA 1&2 on steam

[DELTAprime]

I guess those will have to do. I would prefer them in a client like Steam or GOG, but I guess beggars can't be choosers.

[kup]

What's the price for that looking like? I didn't want the hassle so just preordered the regular release from Play Asia, and the CD & box separately from Nintendo Store Japan. It blew my mind they were offering just that, but it's handy for me! Add in both the Amiibo and I've got myself a custom Special Edition!

Would you believe Nintendo is also selling a Splatoon 2 Switch bundle Box (which you assemble yourself and doesnt even have the inserts to hold the console) for 540Y!

There s only a place holder price of 39.99 Euros. That's the standard price so I wouldn't be surprised if that changes when the pre-orders open.

I have so far only seen it in Amazon Spain, nowhere else.

[DELTAprime]

And I now know why they have been removed from all services, they don't work on modern Windows. Well I guess that's another reason I should look into a VM with hardware support to run older versions of Windows.

[kup]

And I now know why they have been removed from all services, they don't work on modern Windows. Well I guess that's another reason I should look into a VM with hardware support to run older versions of Windows.

You can always emulate the environment like how DosBox does. I am pretty sure that with a bit of research and tinkering, any old Computer game can run on modern PCs.

[Sinnertwin]

shitty week and been playing some fallout 3. forgot how much I enjoyed it.

[kup]

Had a massively shitty week too. Consequences are destined to give me a shitty next few months too. Games are always a good escape.

[DELTAprime]

You can always emulate the environment like how DosBox does. I am pretty sure that with a bit of research and tinkering, any old Computer game can run on modern PCs.

DOS games are not an issue, as you say DOSbox is the solution in that case. Problem is Windows has changed so much over the years that a binary for Windows 95/98/ME/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 isn't guaranteed to run on Windows 10 even with built in compatibility modes. GTA 1 and 2 are both Windows binaries not DOS.

[kup]

DOS games are not an issue, as you say DOSbox is the solution in that case. Problem is Windows has changed so much over the years that a binary for Windows 95/98/ME/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 isn't guaranteed to run on Windows 10 even with built in compatibility modes. GTA 1 and 2 are both Windows binaries not DOS.

VM it if you can. I am sure there are freely available tols.

[Autocon]

Couldnt find crash bandicoot anywhere. Why so popular???:(:confused::mad:

[i_amtrunks]

Couldnt find crash bandicoot anywhere. Why so popular???:(:confused::mad:

The nostalgia is strong with this one....

[yoshi594]

Couldnt find crash bandicoot anywhere. Why so popular???:(:confused::mad:

i was shocked to find out it was sold out everywhere. I got mine first day...tried to price match eb for the $39 big w mistake :P they knew it all to well so i price matched to jb's 49.

Have you tried calling around? i'm sure far out places would have a copy or two

[Paulbot]

Was $39 a mistake? I thought it was just a sale price.

I want to get it (I enjoyed 3 on the PSX and haven't played the first two) but am happy to wait for it. Shame they didn't include Crash Team Racing - of course I get why - loved that game, best kart game I've ever played.

I see FFXII is getting a redo too. That was a great game and it's a reminder to me I never finished it. I stopped before the point of no return with the end boss to do the hunts. Then I moved and I never set up my PS2 again!

[yoshi594]

Was $39 a mistake? I thought it was just a sale price.

I want to get it (I enjoyed 3 on the PSX and haven't played the first two) but am happy to wait for it. Shame they didn't include Crash Team Racing - of course I get why - loved that game, best kart game I've ever played.

I see FFXII is getting a redo too. That was a great game and it's a reminder to me I never finished it. I stopped before the point of no return with the end boss to do the hunts. Then I moved and I never set up my PS2 again!


Yea big w had signs up and publicly said the $39 was a mistake. I had the old catalogue with the misprint ready and armed...but that didn't work haha.

[Autocon]

Scored crash from eb. Price matched $49. Only ever played the first stage in a demo

[DarkHyren]

If anyone missed them the Transformers games (WfC, FoC, Dark Spark, & Devastation) are on sale again on Steam for 75-80% off till the 18th

[Trent]

So I've been sinking some time into Overwatch lately and there is a system where at the end of a match the 4 players with the best achievements can get a like. It's a dumb system with no real point but it lets you show your appreciation to a particular player. 5 likes gets a witty comment from that player's character.

Healers, especially Mercy, get the 5 likes probably 90% of the time, as a kind of pat on the back for helping the team.

That is unless it's obvious by your username that you're a girl. Then you get shit. For example, tonight I played 5 or 6 games straight on a team with a player with the username that started with LegoGirl. Every game she played as Mercy. Did a great job at healing too, I don't think my health got below half for more than about 5 seconds before she magically appeared with her healing stick, and she contributed significantly to the wins that we had. Even using her ultimate strategically to essentially save us from the jaws of defeat on two occasions. This chick knew what she was doing.

Out of all those games, she was lucky to get one or two likes at the end of each.

Then I played another few games with a player whose username was not obviously a female and watched this person, who was a pretty useless healer by the way, clock up likes at the rate of a Kardashian.

I am disappoint.

[DELTAprime]

Casey Hudson is back at Bioware as the GM. I hope he can bring Bioware back on track. I miss the old Bioware.

[i_amtrunks]

Nabbed Titanfall 2 from Target for $20, once I find the time to play it, I am sure it'll be worth every cent!

[MV75]

Afaicr, iTunes already charges GST in their prices, as Apple has a big Australian presence already.
Steam game prices are annoying, if it's anything like Adobe's pricing combination of exchange rate shafting us, distributors setting "regional pricing" and Australia's so called "higher cost for warranty/support" - apparently our consumer laws are too expensive for some companies to deal wih

I ended up doing what I had not done in a long time when buying my latest games. I bought fallout 4 at eb because it was cheaper than steam at release, and more recently I bought bl2 pre-sequel at the eb game sale for $20aud instead of the steam $20usd. Yea, I don't buy many games anymore.

As for warranties, they should just top making garbage products that have an artificial break life span.

[DELTAprime]

I ended up doing what I had not done in a long time when buying my latest games. I bought fallout 4 at eb because it was cheaper than steam at release, and more recently I bought bl2 pre-sequel at the eb game sale for $20aud instead of the steam $20usd. Yea, I don't buy many games anymore.

Was Fallout 4 a Steam code in a box? I'd be interested in getting a copy from EB if it's a Steam code.

[kup]

Was Fallout 4 a Steam code in a box? I'd be interested in getting a copy from EB if it's a Steam code.

All new PC games these days are basically steam codes in a box. They may have like the first 10% of the game install in a DVD and the rest needs to be downloaded.

[Bartrim]

Got Until Dawn for free on PlayStation Plus. More of story type game like the telltale games, still scared the crap out of me.

[prjkt]

All new PC games these days are basically steam codes in a box. They may have like the first 10% of the game install in a DVD and the rest needs to be downloaded.

Steam code plus content on disc, can't remember if it was the whole game or not, but probably not knowing Bethesda

[MV75]

Was Fallout 4 a Steam code in a box? I'd be interested in getting a copy from EB if it's a Steam code.

Yes it was. A ~25GB download at launch too. The dvd that comes with it just contains the steam installer iirc.

And at the time the season pass that included current and all future dlc was cheapest on steam. It was something like $30. That was the same for the bl2 pre-sequel as well. I got it for about $15 during the steam sale. Cheap to buy the game at eb, then cheap to buy dlc on steam.

[DELTAprime]

I normally avoid buying physical disk because there are still some idiotic game devs that don't include Steam codes, that's why I asked if Fallout 4 was a Steam code. I really wish everyone would just use the big 4 platforms Steam, XBL, PSN and Nintendo.

On PC Steam should be the only client I have to install. I have no issue with the preinstalled XBL stuff because it's seamless with Windows and it's one of the big platforms. But come on, if I didn't disable them I would have Origin, Uplay, Battle.net and GoG all sitting in my system tray in addition to Steam and it's ridiculous. Just put it all in Steam.

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Get some Wang for free!

Shadow Warrior Special Edition free for two days from Humble Bundle (need Steam account):

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/shadow-warrior-special-edition?hmb_campaign=shadowwarrior_freegame_2017&hmb_source=bundle_page&hmb_medium=banner_cross

Code must be redeemed by August 5th, 2017 at 10:00 AM Pacific.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUfTNLIZlyo

[DELTAprime]

So I got to play Ghost Recon Wildlands on the weekend and thought it didn't quite deserve the crap it got at launch as it's a rather competent game as far as gameplay. I see EB has it for $40, anyone know if that's a Steam code or a Uplay code in the box?

[Gutsman Heavy]

So I got to play Ghost Recon Wildlands on the weekend and thought it didn't quite deserve the crap it got at launch as it's a rather competent game as far as gameplay. I see EB has it for $40, anyone know if that's a Steam code or a Uplay code in the box?

I'd bet that it's uPlay

[Ralph Wiggum]

If my experience of buying the Assassins Creed games is anything to go by, then yeah definitely uplay.

[DELTAprime]

I'd bet that it's uPlay


If my experience of buying the Assassins Creed games is anything to go by, then yeah definitely uplay.

Yeah I was thinking it will be Uplay, but one can hope for Steam.:rolleyes:

[Ralph Wiggum]

Just gotta wait for a Steam sale :)

But if you buy it off Steam, it loads up uPlay as well doesn't it?

[DELTAprime]

But if you buy it off Steam, it loads up uPlay as well doesn't it?

Yeah but who has friends on Uplay?:p

[Ralph Wiggum]

Haha true. Well if you do buy the retail version you can always manually add the game on Steam.

[DELTAprime]

I think it's about time to unplug my 360 and Wii U and put them with the rest of my retro consoles. Between the backwards compatibility of the Xbox One and MK8 being on Switch I haven't fired up either of them since maybe last year to play an actual game.

[SharkyMcShark]

I got PLAYERUNKNOWN BATTLEGROUNDS yesterday.

Seems fun. If I had to describe my experience so far in a single closed caption it would be:

[panicked automatic gunfire]

[DELTAprime]

Anyone here have a PS4 Pro? Just wondering if they put a nice quiet fan in the damn thing. At this point I can here my launch PS4 from the next room. Probably going to trade it for a Pro.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Anyone here have a PS4 Pro? Just wondering if they put a nice quiet fan in the damn thing. At this point I can here my launch PS4 from the next room. Probably going to trade it for a Pro.

I've heard that its bloody loud in pro mode games, I've got a slim and its pretty damn quiet, see how it does during summer.

[Trent]

Anyone here have a PS4 Pro? Just wondering if they put a nice quiet fan in the damn thing. At this point I can here my launch PS4 from the next room. Probably going to trade it for a Pro.

I've got one and in all honesty I've never noticed the fan. I was actually surprised how quiet it was compared to my PS3.

[DELTAprime]

I've got one and in all honesty I've never noticed the fan. I was actually surprised how quiet it was compared to my PS3.

Good to know. I went to EB and asked how much they give for an original PS4, I'll get almost $190 as a level 4 so not bad.

[kup]

I have a PS4 Pro and seen the original in action. The fan is a hum at best, you don't really notice it. It's there so you will know the PS4 is on if you walk passed it in the quiet of the night but otherwise you won't hear it. I am not completely sure, but it may be quieter than the original release.

[DELTAprime]

It's so satisfying in Shadow of Mordor to have a Orc Warlord giving you all sorts of grief killing you or escaping and then you behead him.

Not sure if I'll play much more of SoM since SoW is a month and change away, but it's been a nice refresher to play it again the last day or two.

[DELTAprime]

Sold my launch PS4 for $280 to a lady that wanted to play the new Crash Bandicoot remaster because it's the first game she ever played. Nostalgia I guess.

So I'm going to work tomorrow on a day off to grab a PS4 Pro and if we have one a vertical stand for the console. Looks like it's next to impossible to find the stand for it so if I can't get one at work I'll have to order from JB Hifi as they are the only store that has online stock of the big retailers and I don't have a JB Hifi in my city.

[DELTAprime]

Ok, so got my PS4 Pro today. Not a huge upgrade visually as I have a UHD TV that does not have HDR (yay early adopters). But I appreciate the games that have a toggle for 30fps and 60fps frame rates because I will take 60fps over higher resolution any day of the week. Also I found that it has a ton of air intakes on the vertical bottom of the console so if you stand it up vertical without the stand you block them and it goes from very quiet under full load to just as loud as the launch PS4.

[Trent]

Ok, so got my PS4 Pro today. Not a huge upgrade visually as I have a UHD TV that does not have HDR (yay early adopters). But I appreciate the games that have a toggle for 30fps and 60fps frame rates because I will take 60fps over higher resolution any day of the week. Also I found that it has a ton of air intakes on the vertical bottom of the console so if you stand it up vertical without the stand you block them and it goes from very quiet under full load to just as loud as the launch PS4.

Mines laying down. Still quiet.

[i_amtrunks]

Finished Uncharted: A Thieves End last night. Only a good 18 months after every one else.

Props to Naughty Dog, they know how to properly conclude a franchise. As near a perfect game as has ever been made.

[Trent]

Finished Uncharted: A Thieves End last night. Only a good 18 months after every one else.

Props to Naughty Dog, they know how to properly conclude a franchise. As near a perfect game as has ever been made.

It's still sitting in its plastic wrap in my TV cabinet. As soon as I get bored with Overwatch (unlikely to be anytime soon) I'll be into it :)

[Gutsman Heavy]

Sonic Mania SOON! :eek::eek::eek:

[DELTAprime]

Sonic Mania SOON! :eek::eek::eek:

I'm so pissed the Steam version got delayed till the 30th. I'm thinking of getting a Steam refund and buying on Xbox One.

[Gutsman Heavy]

I'm so pissed the Steam version got delayed till the 30th. I'm thinking of getting a Steam refund and buying on Xbox One.

Thats what I did, got it on ps4.

[DELTAprime]

Thats what I did, got it on ps4.

Hope you're enjoying it. All the reviews seem positive. How about that, a Sonic game that doesn't suck.:p

[langzixinxin]

anyone is still playing warcraft legion at the moment? My wife and I play it on frostmourne realme horde.

[DELTAprime]

anyone is still playing warcraft legion at the moment? My wife and I play it on frostmourne realme horde.

I'll resub from time to time, but I've been unsubbed since 7.2 released.

[DELTAprime]

So Crackdown has been delayed till next year and Agents of Mayhem is a really bad game according to most reviews (though some reviewer in the metacritic system gave it a perfect score for some reason.)

I guess I'm just not meant to have a super agent game this year.:(

[DELTAprime]

How far has everyone gotten with Sonic Mania? I'm stuck at Metal Madness Zone, so close to the end.

Too bad I totally suck at the collect the sphere bonus stages, I've only got two silver medals with just the Sonic CD move unlocked.

[Gutsman Heavy]

How far has everyone gotten with Sonic Mania? I'm stuck at Metal Madness Zone, so close to the end.

Too bad I totally suck at the collect the sphere bonus stages, I've only got two silver medals with just the Sonic CD move unlocked.

Finshed with Sonic (all emeralds, extra boss/ending) and Knuckles.
Don't stress too much about blue spheres, all the good rewards are front loaded so you can get all the really good stuff without being perfect at it (I'm never getting all those medals, some of those are crazy hard)

Easily on par with the originals and only one zone I don't care for (Stardust Speedway, good boss though) so it's probably the most consistent (level quality wise) Sonic game of them all. Drop Dash was a great addition. I'm in love, it's perfect.

[DELTAprime]

Finshed with Sonic (all emeralds, extra boss/ending) and Knuckles.
Don't stress too much about blue spheres, all the good rewards are front loaded so you can get all the really good stuff without being perfect at it (I'm never getting all those medals, some of those are crazy hard)

Easily on par with the originals and only one zone I don't care for (Stardust Speedway, good boss though) so it's probably the most consistent (level quality wise) Sonic game of them all. Drop Dash was a great addition. I'm in love, it's perfect.

Yeah I'm going to be at least one Emerald short to get the extra boss so I'll have to play through again. No huge deal as I've had no real trouble with the game until this second last zone, just Robotnik keeps getting the best of me in the MMZ1 boss battle.

EDIT: Final zone, woohoo.

[philby]

Finished Uncharted: A Thieves End last night. Only a good 18 months after every one else.

Props to Naughty Dog, they know how to properly conclude a franchise. As near a perfect game as has ever been made.

love uncharted, but also don't really feel liking buying a PS4 just for it. might bight one day.

[Trent]

love uncharted, but also don't really feel liking buying a PS4 just for it. might bight one day.

Lol. Uncharted 4 was essentially the reason I bought a PS4. But I still haven't got around to playing it :o

[Gutsman Heavy]

Yeah I'm going to be at least one Emerald short to get the extra boss so I'll have to play through again. No huge deal as I've had no real trouble with the game until this second last zone, just Robotnik keeps getting the best of me in the MMZ1 boss battle.

EDIT: Final zone, woohoo.

After you beat the game you can go to any old level and use the special ring there, just exit level and retry if you fail you don't need to complete the level to keep the emerald either.

[i_amtrunks]

Lol. Uncharted 4 was essentially the reason I bought a PS4. But I still haven't got around to playing it :o

That and ratchet and clank, but if I had be held out last year and not gotten one, I would've caved for Crash!

[DELTAprime]

I was going to ignore the Xbox One X till next year or later but they had to do a limited edition Project Scorpio version just to get me to buy day one.

[DELTAprime]

God I hate my local EB Games.

Called this morning to make sure the Xbox One X was in the system and available for preorder in store and that it was the normal $50 deposit. The lady said that it was available to order in store and that it was indeed $50.

Went into the store at about 12:30 and was told by the same lady sorry you need to go online to preorder it and then when I did go online to order it I found it was $100 deposit instead of the normal $50.

I would have gone and placed my order at JB Hi Fi after all that BS at EB but the nearest JB is about an hour and twenty minute drive away instead of 2 minutes drive for EB.

[lancalot]

I was going to ignore the Xbox One X till next year or later but they had to do a limited edition Project Scorpio version just to get me to buy day one.

:D:D it always the case... man im very interested in one now ....gee im a sucker for limited stuff ...

[kup]

Most of the time, I prefer the pre-release code names than the actual final name:

Eg from recent times:
Project Scorpio - Much better than stupid ass XBox One X.
The Nintendo NX - Although Switch is a suitable name, no where near as cool as NX.

They should really remove the 'Marketing filter' when naming consoles. Development code names are much cooler.

[DELTAprime]

They should really remove the 'Marketing filter' when naming consoles. Development code names are much cooler.

-Xbox Codenames-

Xbox was actually the codename of the OG Xbox so that time the code name did carry over.

The 360 had several codenames. Xenon was the original launch hardware. Xepher was a refresh of the hardware with an HDMI port and a fix for the RROD. Then they called the next version Falcon, which was a further fix for the RROD. The Xbox 360 S was codenamed Valhalla. I'm mixed on Xepher and hate Falcon but Xenon and Valhalla are cooler than Xbox 360

I hate Natal which was the Kinect's code name, but Kinect isn't great either.

The original Xbox One was called Durango which sounds like a car not a game console, Xbox One is better but it's still a confusing name. I wish I knew what the Xbox One S's codename was.

Project Scorpio is awesome, but I think they should have just called it the Xbox in the final version.

-Nintendo codenames-

The NES and SNES are very Japanese businessie names. Family Computer and Super Family Computer.

Nintendo 64 started as Project Reality, but I kinda prefer the Ultra 64 codename/preliminary retail name over Nintendo 64 and Project Reality.

Gamecube was Dolphin, I prefer Gamecube

Remember when the tough, angry looking Reggie was talking about Project Revolution? Well that turned into the Wii and I still hate motion controllers in all it's forms. Revolution sounded amazingly cool.

Project Cafe for the Wii U, yeah not a great codename either.

NX, that was cool, Switch works fine but NX was cool.

-Sony codenames-

I'm not great on these codenames.

OG PlayStation was codenamed PSX and PSX later became a super high end version of the both the OG PlayStation and PS2.

PS4 was Orbis and I kinda like that over PS4, I'm not really a fan of incremental numbers for console names any more than I'm a fan of it for PC parts.

[DELTAprime]

So are there any bad games you guys buy knowing they are not great yet get enjoyment out of them?

Every year I buy the WWE 2K games. I know they're bad games and they're certainly no WWF No Mercy, yet every year I buy the digital deluxe edition of the new WWE 2K game and enjoy it.

[prjkt]

So are there any bad games you guys buy knowing they are not great yet get enjoyment out of them?

Every year I buy the WWE 2K games. I know they're bad games and they're certainly no WWF No Mercy, yet every year I buy the digital deluxe edition of the new WWE 2K game and enjoy it.

Hah, it's like D grade movies, you know they're going to be crap going in but you don't care.

Back in the days of free game discs with pc hardware I scored a couple like that (and some real gems - the original Deus Ex came with my Soundblaater Live!) one of them served me really well to show a faulty GPU. Nothing special but I did end up playing through to the end, Will Rock I think it was called.

Another game I bought from the damaged pile while working at Kmart, not expecting much with a title like "Gun" but ended up playing through it a couple of times, didn't mind it at all.

[Gutsman Heavy]

So are there any bad games you guys buy knowing they are not great yet get enjoyment out of them?

Every year I buy the WWE 2K games. I know they're bad games and they're certainly no WWF No Mercy, yet every year I buy the digital deluxe edition of the new WWE 2K game and enjoy it.

I guess EDF falls into that category, it's a budget title though and is well received by fans. One of my favorite bad games is A Dog's Life on PS2

[SharkyMcShark]

So are there any bad games you guys buy knowing they are not great yet get enjoyment out of them?

Every year I buy the WWE 2K games. I know they're bad games and they're certainly no WWF No Mercy, yet every year I buy the digital deluxe edition of the new WWE 2K game and enjoy it.

Yes, but the list of mostly co-op things. Sniper Elite Nazi Zombie Army and Aliens: Colonial Marines spring to mind.

Both cripplingly shit, both with four player co-op campaigns.

[prjkt]

I guess shit games are more fun with more people?

Speaking of which, anyone checked out Screencheat?

[Ralph Wiggum]

I've never deliberately bought shit games, only inadvertently :(

[kup]

I've never deliberately bought shit games, only inadvertently :(

Before the internet and local game publications, that was a real danger. Nowadays there are many ways to check if a game sucks or not. Also the corporate way things are run these days (and also back then to a lesser degree) makes it easy to make educated guesses too. Like if a game is based on 'Brats' or the latest blockbuster movie (or failed attempt), you know it will suck.

[prjkt]

I miss the old days of demo discs with magazines, or even other games

[DELTAprime]

I miss the old days of demo discs with magazines, or even other games

Even the original days of Xbox Live on the 360 when you could download a demo.

I think Sony actually killed the demo. I remember a bunch of developers complaining about the fact on Xbox 360 Microsoft would bare the cost of bandwidth while Sony would charge developers a fee for each person that downloaded a free piece of content on PSN. Sony was really out of touch in the early PS3 days.

[DELTAprime]

Anyone getting Mario + Rabbids?

I'm thinking about getting Mario + Rabbids, but I'm kinda over the X-COM style of gameplay at the moment cause I spent so long with X-COM 2 earlier in the year.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Anyone getting Mario + Rabbids?

I'm thinking about getting Mario + Rabbids, but I'm kinda over the X-COM style of gameplay at the moment cause I spent so long with X-COM 2 earlier in the year.

I got it, love how much you can do in a single movement phase. It is basically X-COM without the base management stuff.

[DELTAprime]

Well I've decided to preorder Shadow or War since I'm still having fun playing Shadow or Mordor.

[Autocon]

Bought Uncharted remaster collection and number 5. First game was clunky in controls and story has been done to death. Bad people v good people oh! but wait there are ancient bad creatures too. Same with number two. Always need something ancient n evil in these revealing the past games. Number 2 was better story telling wise, bit thingy with cover shooting at certain points but enjoyable. Moving on to number three. Will there be an ancient civilisation of people to kill? Only time will tell......

[i_amtrunks]

Finally had three straight hours where I could game so I booted up breath of the wild... it isn't anywhere near as pretty on the wiiu as the switch but I can see a lot of wasted hours, already spent longer than I should've pushing boulders down hills and playing with the boko leaf for wind and grass fire kills...

The big bosses that I know how to kill but don't have the tools to do so both annoy and excite me. I know if I wanted to I could read everything online but I've kept spoiler free so far and will try to figure thing s out myself first... try.

[DELTAprime]

I'm thinking of downloading Everybody's Golf on PS4. It's getting good reviews for a budget game. Just a little worried about the microtransactions in the game.

[1AZRAEL1]

Played Wolfenstein 2 and Evil Within 2 at a pop up Bethesda event tonight. Quite fun both of them. Cannot wait for my preorder of Terror Billy Wolfenstein comes in

[Autocon]

You think $100 for eleven ps4 games is a good price?

Crash bandicoot remastered
Uncharted remastered
Uncharted 4
Uncharted L.L
Batmen remastered
Batman knight

[i_amtrunks]

All quality, no filler in that lot. Well worth it! What are the other 5?

[Trent]

You think $100 for eleven ps4 games is a good price?

Crash bandicoot remastered
Uncharted remastered
Uncharted 4
Uncharted L.L
Batmen remastered
Batman knight

That's $17 a game. If they're in good nick and you want them all then it's good.

[Ralph Wiggum]

You think $100 for eleven ps4 games is a good price?

Crash bandicoot remastered
Uncharted remastered
Uncharted 4
Uncharted L.L
Batmen remastered
Batman knight

All top notch games there

[DarkHyren]

You think $100 for eleven ps4 games is a good price?Probably too good a price honestly. I'm assuming you're buying off gumtree or a facebook sales group?

PSA: If a price seems too good to be true it very well may be, so don't pay a stranger online via direct bank deposit or paypal friends & family for anything.
Good example: A mate of mine just paid $100 the other day for 5 PS4 games that would normally cost at least twice that so here he is thinking he got a good deal. Suffice to say we found out the seller was a scammer, but because they convinced him to pay via paypal friends & family he's probably lost that $100

[DELTAprime]

Yeah sounds too good to be true, do your due diligence.

I am still trying to play through the Uncharted games, I even bought the Nathan Drake Collection in the last big PSN sale. For whatever reason I still don't like the gameplay, but the story is great. Maybe I should just goto YouTube and look for a video of the story elements of all the games.

You would think critics darlings would be impossible to dislike, I feel weird for not liking them.

[kup]

I have issue with the first Uncharted game. It is the same type of flaw that you see in the whole series but for me it is more jarring in the first - You discover some temple that no one has ever set foot inside yet it is full of mercenary thugs?

I played all three, I enjoyed them but they are rather flawed in certain ways like the above which seems to repeat a lot and the one below. Presently I am playing Golden Abyss on the Vita. Seems like more of the same but once again, you discover some ancient temple and enter a door that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years yet the place happens to be full of generic thugs to shoot. This repeats several times per game.

I would be in total agreement with you - Good story, good characters but mediocre gameplay and cheaply set up shoot em up sequences. What keeps the game from being too frustrating is that the gameplay is simple and not taxing or boring to get through to the next story bit but gameplay is very formulaic.


SPOILERS!!!







Another one is that by the end of the games, it become a bizzare and badly executed Zombie survival rush game?

Uncharted 2 seems to be the best one of the original trilogy. I am yet to play the 4th.

[Ralph Wiggum]

First Uncharted was definitely the weakest of the series (bullet sponge enemies the most obvious) but subsequent games learned from that. I agree Uncharted 2 is the best. Number 4 is also a lot of fun, possibly my second favourite. Lost Legacy is on my "to do" pile.

[Trent]

JB charged my cc the other day for the SNES mini. Only a few days to go.

[DELTAprime]

If Nintendo are serious about increasing production significantly on the SNES I might grab one when I see it on a shelf.

[i_amtrunks]

With the new Mario odyssey info coming out, the switch is starting to get a good range of games that are more than just the newest iterations of long benign and regular series. Breath of the wild, mk8 deluxe, splatoon, Mario and rabbids, odyssey, throw in xenoverse, monster hunter and the variety of cross platform sports games and it's looking far healthier than the wiiu every really did if you exclude mariokart and smash brothers...

[Autocon]

Probably too good a price honestly. I'm assuming you're buying off gumtree or a facebook sales group?

PSA: If a price seems too good to be true it very well may be, so don't pay a stranger online via direct bank deposit or paypal friends & family for anything.
Good example: A mate of mine just paid $100 the other day for 5 PS4 games that would normally cost at least twice that so here he is thinking he got a good deal. Suffice to say we found out the seller was a scammer, but because they convinced him to pay via paypal friends & family he's probably lost that $100

Im the one selling :p

[Autocon]

I have issue with the first Uncharted game. It is the same type of flaw that you see in the whole series but for me it is more jarring in the first - You discover some temple that no one has ever set foot inside yet it is full of mercenary thugs?

I played all three, I enjoyed them but they are rather flawed in certain ways like the above which seems to repeat a lot and the one below. Presently I am playing Golden Abyss on the Vita. Seems like more of the same but once again, you discover some ancient temple and enter a door that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years yet the place happens to be full of generic thugs to shoot. This repeats several times per game.

I would be in total agreement with you - Good story, good characters but mediocre gameplay and cheaply set up shoot em up sequences. What keeps the game from being too frustrating is that the gameplay is simple and not taxing or boring to get through to the next story bit but gameplay is very formulaic.


SPOILERS!!!



Another one is that by the end of the games, it become a bizzare and badly executed Zombie survival rush game?

Uncharted 2 seems to be the best one of the original trilogy. I am yet to play the 4th.

Yes all three games followed the same formula. Number 4 differs though with no ancient beings of doom getting in the way. More of a solid story. I didnt like the controls, felt clunky but improved throughout the series.

[DarkHyren]

Im the one selling :plol then you might be undercharging :D
You could probably sell what you listed for $150 on a gaming group and get a sale easily enough (though I'm no expert on PS4 game prices), but what are the other 5 games (you said 11 but only listed 6, unless those "remastered" games are multi-game disc's)?

[DELTAprime]

Oh since you're selling them $100 is too cheap if they are in good condition. Personally I'd sell them individually and price them like this: The Nathan Drake Collection and Uncharted 4 could easily get $40 each. Add another $30 for Return to Arkham and $20 for Arkham Knight. Crash is really popular at the moment so I'd put $50 on that one because it's held it's value so far. Not sure on Lost Legacy, as I'm not sure if that is selling well or not, try $40 as it's a very recent release.

[DELTAprime]

Can't say how I came to this conclusion but I now realise how shitty your average gamer is at playing a racing game like Forza, Gran Turismo or Project Cars properly.

I'm not sure what Project Cars' online scene is like but if Forza and Gran Turismo are serious about having their multiplayer modes recognised as official championships by motor racing organisations like the FIA with major prize money, trophies and champagne they need to think again. I'm sure at the actual finals at race meetings like Le Mans the competitors can behave themselves and not treat it like bumper cars but at the entry point to the championships your average multiplayer race on Xbox Live or PSN is going to be farce.

Gran Turismo Sport better have a robust offline mode because I'm not going to be trying to qualify for any of their championships.

[Autocon]

lol then you might be undercharging :D
You could probably sell what you listed for $150 on a gaming group and get a sale easily enough (though I'm no expert on PS4 game prices), but what are the other 5 games (you said 11 but only listed 6, unless those "remastered" games are multi-game disc's)?

Batman is multi disc. Crash and uncharted are multi games.

[DarkHyren]

Batman is multi disc. Crash and uncharted are multi games.Ah fair enough. Well I saw Crash Bandicoot: N-Sane Trilogy (guessing that's what you have) sell within 12 hours on a buy/sell/trade group for $30 so if they are all as popular at the moment you should be able to easily sell them and get $150-200.
Good rule of thumb is look how much a game costs brand new and minus 40% from the price, Crash for example is $49 at JB hi fi so if you price yours 40-50% off ($25-30) you'll get the sale. Too close to the new price and people will generally just go pay the little bit extra for the new copy.

[DELTAprime]

This morning WWE 2K18 was announced for PC just two weeks before it's due out for console and PC and it's $50AUD cheaper on Steam than on Xbox Line for the version with all the content included. I canceled my Xbox One preorder right away and I'm going to get it on Steam some time before release. It's a good thing Microsoft don't charge for preorders until the game is about to be released and they cancel orders and give refunds when needed easily. If I bought it on PlayStation I'd be shit-out-of-luck because they still refuse to give refunds which is against the law.

[prjkt]

If I bought it on PlayStation I'd be shit-out-of-luck because they still refuse to give refunds which is against the law.
Not quite, according to Australian Consumer Law, "change of mind" is not a valid reason for demanding a refund. Some retailers/stores might accept it, but it's not required. Faulty and flawed game? Yeah that's grounds for a refund.

[DELTAprime]

Not quite, according to Australian Consumer Law, "change of mind" is not a valid reason for demanding a refund. Some retailers/stores might accept it, but it's not required. Faulty and flawed game? Yeah that's grounds for a refund.

I was referring to their blanket refusal to give refunds not a change of mind policy, but any halfway decent store allows for change of mind. Anyway just looked up their current policy and looks like as of May they now allow refunds as long as you haven't started the download, which means if the game is broken like the last WWE 2K games I bought on PSN was a couple of years back they would still refuse you and that is still against the law. Yes they don't have to give change of mind, but until this change there was no refunds at all, that is illegal and the fact they refuse to give refunds if you have downloaded it would still be illegal since you don't know if the game is broken until you try it. This is the type of BS customer service that I hate about Sony and why I normally don't buy third party titles for my PS4 unless there is a very good reason to do so like the PC and/or Xbox version is broken but the PS4 version is fine.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Finally finished Starcraft Remastered. Never tried the Starcraft series and was waiting for the original to get updated before giving it a crack. By about the 3rd last mission in the campaign I started feeling bored, so I just money-cheated my way through the game.

Not feeling the urge to slug through the Brood War expansion so I'll play some Uncharted Lost Legacy and have a break before getting back into the RTS genre.

[kup]

With the new Mario odyssey info coming out, the switch is starting to get a good range of games that are more than just the newest iterations of long benign and regular series. Breath of the wild, mk8 deluxe, splatoon, Mario and rabbids, odyssey, throw in xenoverse, monster hunter and the variety of cross platform sports games and it's looking far healthier than the wiiu every really did if you exclude mariokart and smash brothers...

Doom which appeared as a huge surprise. Yeah, it will never be 4K 60fps but it is very much playable, looks good and you can take it on the go.

This sets a standard that any new game that comes out can be easily adapted for the Switch as we can also see with the upcoming Wolfenstein.

Very exciting times for the Switch. for short length games like Wolfenstein I will stick with PC gaming for the best graphics as they are only a few hours of gameplay. However for large open world games similar to Skyrim or Fallout, I will seriously consider the Switch as those games require insane amount of hours (hundreds) and being able to play on the go would be very handy even with the lower graphics. If only there was a way to share save games between platforms...

When it comes to AAA gaming on the go, I have tried to use the Nvidia streaming feature with my phone and a bluetooth controller (on a frame like a handheld). It works remarkably well as I was playing Doom 2016 on my bed yesterday. Unfortunately on the go internet in Australia is still too primitive and expensive to work. Most only have a 1Mbps upload so you immediately get a graphical hit although still playable if you get a stable connection. Unfortunately the instability of our mobile networks, specially on the train kills it in the areas where it would be handy.

Given that the NBN is such a fraud, I don't expect the above to be rectified anytime soon sadly.

[philby]

Finally finished Starcraft Remastered. Never tried the Starcraft series and was waiting for the original to get updated before giving it a crack. By about the 3rd last mission in the campaign I started feeling bored, so I just money-cheated my way through the game.

Not feeling the urge to slug through the Brood War expansion so I'll play some Uncharted Lost Legacy and have a break before getting back into the RTS genre.

I had to cheat in the final Protoss mission I'm pretty sure. I don't think I ever finished Brood War either. Possibly with cheats hehe. Some of those old Blizzard missions and expansions seemed to really up the difficulty and I could never handle them :(

[prjkt]

Final Zerg mission in BW was nuts in difficulty from memory, even more so than the last Protoss mission in the original game.

Funnily enough, the order of races in Starcraft was echoed in the Starcraft II releases (Terran, Zerg, Protoss) while Legacy of the Void's epilogue mini campaign echoes the order of Brood War

[DarkHyren]

I had to cheat in the final Protoss mission I'm pretty sure. I don't think I ever finished Brood War either. Possibly with cheats hehe. Some of those old Blizzard missions and expansions seemed to really up the difficulty and I could never handle them :(Honestly that's been my experience too with Blizzards RTS games. Was able to manage every level in SC and WC3 but then in the last missions of both games the difficulty gets upped times 100.
I'm sure there are people that can beat those missions, but considering that you'd have to do everything absolutely perfectly to do so takes the fun out imo.
The final areas in Diablo2 were easier in comparison, though at least in that game you could level up in earlier areas and prepare so that obviously helps

[kup]

I finished StarCraft and Brood Wars several times as it is one of my all time best games. You just need patience and persistence. All that I do is try to build up base defenses and then carriers as fast as possible. With Zerg, just build Guardians and Mutalisks to cover one another. Always have upgraded 1st and 2nd Tier ground infantry guarding your base like Hydralisks and Zerglings.

[i_amtrunks]

Finally finished shadows of Mordor, it kind of disappointed me, Celebrimbor doing the "human" thing of taking the ring for himself to take down Sauron just doesn't ring right to me ( no pun intended).

I've seen that they have really stuffed up the lore with war by giving the ringwraiths names that I won't divulge here. It'd be interesting if they hadn't done the most boring and one dimensional work with Celebrimbor. Not a good track record...

[DELTAprime]

Finally finished shadows of Mordor, it kind of disappointed me, Celebrimbor doing the "human" thing of taking the ring for himself to take down Sauron just doesn't ring right to me ( no pun intended).

I've seen that they have really stuffed up the lore with war by giving the ringwraiths names that I won't divulge here. It'd be interesting if they hadn't done the most boring and one dimensional work with Celebrimbor. Not a good track record...

I do love the gameplay of Shadow of Mordor and I'm expecting more of the same with Shadow of War if the microtransactions don't screw everything up. I looked this up recently and it should be noted that the story of these games is NOT canon so don't worry about the lore. Hopefully the story of SoW will not be as boring as SoM to me, I skipped almost every cutscene in SoM. Great gameplay, bad story.

[Autocon]

Finished asylum and city. Now onto knight. Its interesting to see how technology in gaming has progressed through the years through this series. Knight feels too complex with its upgrade trees.

[prjkt]

Never got around d to Knight - haven’t finished Origin yet, must get back into that.

Been playing Prey again to test the new machine, apart from the story, it’s like playing System Shock 2 with modern tech

[Trent]

Got my mini snes today. Courier asked me what was in the box since he'd pretty much spent the morning delivering nothing else :)

[DaptoDog]

Got my mini snes today. Courier asked me what was in the box since he'd pretty much spent the morning delivering nothing else :)

Haha ours arrived today too from JB's. Can't believe how tiny the thing is! Hopefully will get a chance to play some Street fighter tonight.

[Autocon]

Never got around d to Knight - haven’t finished Origin yet, must get back into that.

Been playing Prey again to test the new machine, apart from the story, it’s like playing System Shock 2 with modern tech

Knight has the most gruesome start to a game. Its the best game of the trilogoy so far.

[prjkt]

Hmm might have to check it out.

EB emailed me today with the Beta access code for Battlefront II, and I got my Quake Champions code for buying the Ryzen 7. Might have to try some deathmatch soon

[kup]

Been playing Cuphead. If you like old school challenging but rewarding gameplay then right game for it. The 30s cartoon graphics alone makes it enjoyable despite multiple deaths.

It is basically a boss battle fest for the most part. That's where the animation really flourishes. There are also some Contra style run and gun levels and sidescrolling shootemup levels.

It has coop multiplayer but sadly, since I live in good'ol boring Sydney, I know nobody who plays videogames like that.

[prjkt]

I’ve been looking at that one actually, and with my steamlink it’s been tempting me

[1AZRAEL1]

Went and played Wolfenstein 2 again tonight, tried it on Death Incarnate. Bloody difficult. Plus I don't like xbox controllers. When I get my game for PS4 will be better. Such a fine game and learning about the behind the scenes stuff from their artistic director was cool. Nice chap

[DELTAprime]

Streamed a little of Shadow of War last night. The story once again is completely throw away but the gameplay feels great like the original game.

[kup]

Went and played Wolfenstein 2 again tonight, tried it on Death Incarnate. Bloody difficult. Plus I don't like xbox controllers. When I get my game for PS4 will be better. Such a fine game and learning about the behind the scenes stuff from their artistic director was cool. Nice chap

Apparently the 'alt right' was offended that the game is about killing Nazis lol

[DELTAprime]

Looks like gamers have had it with in game loot boxes with some people going as far as asking politicians to intervene because they see it as gambling. Politicians getting involved in games is the last thing we need, anyone remember having to import games because the Australian government kept banning or censoring them?

[1AZRAEL1]

I didn't totally believe my mate when he told me people were upset about a game killing Nazis, but wow was I wrong

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/10/bethesda-defends-wolfenstein-2-for-being-a-wolfenstein-game/

[1AZRAEL1]

Apparently the 'alt right' was offended that the game is about killing Nazis lol

Yea I just read that. Wolfenstein has been the same since the beginning, it's the world around us that has changed

[DarkHyren]

The complaints have nothing to do with people being upset over killing nazis in a game, they are about Bethesda seeming to be siding with SJW's/Antifa/leftists with their play on "Make America great again" saying "Make America Nazi Free again".
It's to do with the left calling everyone that disagrees with them "nazis" and Bethesda making a statement that implies they are taking sides politically, that "America is run by nazis".
Their trailer even says "not my america", another political statement that heavily suggests they side with all those that love to go around saying "not my president".
I dont think anyone cares that the game is about killing actual nazis, they care about the political implications that are being made

[1AZRAEL1]

That's where the problem is. People over analysing everything. It's a game about how Germany won WW2 and BJ trying to rally up the resistance to bring the Nazis down. You could say all the wolfenstein games are political in some way, but now in this world it has become almost taboo to do it without people jumping all over them. The idea of this game, and it's development, was long before the current problems we have in the world

[DELTAprime]

Just been playing Gran Turismo Sport B. Sony still has not learnt that licence test are not fun. They don't have a rewind mechanic like every other racing game I've played in recent years. The cars are impossible to control with the assist off partially due to lack of feedback from rumble (the DS4 really could use rumble in the triggers for racing game like the Xbox One controller) and partially due to just the design of the game. I'm glad I was waiting to preorder it because it's not a great game. Looks like Forza Motorsport 7 will be the best racing game this year if they can iron out all the bugs/criticisms but till then Project Cars 2 is probably the better racing game of the three.

[prjkt]

The whole Wolfenstein furore has made me laugh

And buy the original two games on Steam

[DarkHyren]

Well as I said I don't think this is about the game at all, I think it's about the company that made the game making their product (or at least the advertising for it) into a political statement.
It's the same as the AFL changing their corporate logo to say "yes" in support of the vote thing, all they did is drive away viewers by taking sides on a very sensitive issue.
These companies exist solely to entertain us so they shouldnt be taking sides in politics, they should stick to entertaining the public because all they end up doing is alienating half their audience.
Bethesda could have advertised Wolf2 without making it into a political statement, or they could have clarified matters easily by saying "we arent calling anyone nazis because of their political views, the slogan is purely about the game".
Instead they chose to make another statement that implies they think anyone that disagrees with them is a nazi, the same thing that a lot of leftists do

[1AZRAEL1]

I'd have to disagree. People are seeing what they want to see. And it is entertainment, the game, and watching people get upset about it

And the whole yes/no vote thing is a load of crap. And let's keep that talk away from the boards

[DarkHyren]

I wasnt siding with either camp, just showing it as an example of things companies do that alienate customers.
I agree the vote (not to mention a lot of other things) has no place being discussed outside political circles, which is why I also think that politics has no place being pushed by entertainers.

Moving on.
Looks like gamers have had it with in game loot boxes with some people going as far as asking politicians to intervene because they see it as gambling. Politicians getting involved in games is the last thing we need, anyone remember having to import games because the Australian government kept banning or censoring them?Yeah I agree we really dont need certain people in charge of what games we can and cant play, they are still banning games in Australia that havent been banned anywhere else purely because it offends someones weak sensibilities.
The problem is too many of these people think games are purely for kids, doubly so if the game has "cartoon graphics".
The annoying thing now is that we cant even get American steam friends to gift us banned games or ones that are otherwise unavailable due to their more recent regional gifting/pricing changes :/

Because even though the devs said we could pirate Hotline Miami 2 I'd still like it on my account lol

[kup]

Yea I just read that. Wolfenstein has been the same since the beginning, it's the world around us that has changed

Are we supposed to be all sensitive and PC towards Nazi culture now? We need the 4 Horsemen and we need them now! lol

[Ralph Wiggum]

Left gets triggered, right gets triggered. People scoff when others people get offended until something of theirs gets ripped on. Hypocrites everywhere. All I know is that I want to kill Nazis as BJ Blaksiwosozorxtz.

Moving on, and I’ve preordered Battlefront 2. The whole loot box P2W debate doesn’t bother me in the slightest, but it’ll be a cold day in hell if I ever pay for a crate.

[SharkyMcShark]

Left gets triggered, right gets triggered. People scoff when others people get offended until something of theirs gets ripped on. Hypocrites everywhere. All I know is that I want to kill Nazis as BJ Blaksiwosozorxtz.

Moving on, and I’ve preordered Battlefront 2. The whole loot box P2W debate doesn’t bother me in the slightest, but it’ll be a cold day in hell if I ever pay for a crate.

I played the beta and really struggled to get gripped by it. I've spent large chunks of my adolescent and adult life gripped by games from the Battlefield/Call of Duty/Counterstrike franchises, but this didn't take me in the way that I'd hoped it would.

The ground combat was excessively shallow.

Starfighter combat was actually a lot better than I'd expected, but certainly not enough to move me anywhere near considering a full price purchase.

As far as I can see it, the things this game has going for it are that I love Star Wars and it's probably the best looking game in existence at the moment (and I have a shiny new top end gaming computer). The fact that it was mind numbingly boring to play and packed full of loot box and P2W bullshit means I'm not touching it with a 10 foot pole.

[DELTAprime]

Yeah, I didn't play the beta but I watched footage and of course know about the loot box shit. SWBF2 has gone from must buy to maybe I'll buy it for $5-10 on sale as a PC benchmark if others use it for benchmarking.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Finished asylum and city. Now onto knight. Its interesting to see how technology in gaming has progressed through the years through this series. Knight feels too complex with its upgrade trees.

Half the skills and stuff in Knight I didn't even touch (like bullet resistance and gliding batarangs). I really enjoyed it and found a few of the new things rather fun, but there are some sections that were a little tedious.

For example, all the tanks battles. I really didn't find them very fun. But I did enjoy the chases and other things that involved the batmobile. I do wish that they had more sections that required stealth though. I felt that since Asylum, they've been moving away from the stealth mechanic and focusing more on the combat.

I did like the bank heist missions, with the time limit and option to go hard and fast on the stealthiness, but generally, there was a lack of stealth. Which made me sad

[kup]

I was going to start playing Horizon on the PS4 but then learned that it is actually a fairly long game. Since i just came out of playing Fallout 4 for like 8 months, I figured I should try to get through the shorter hours games in my backlog. So I decided to start with Uncharted 4 since it isn't a long game. So far as we have discussed, excellent presentation, story and sets but repetitive game play that gets dull, specially when it emphasises on combat rather than the puzzle or discovery elements. However I will say that it feels more refined than the previous games so combat sequences don't feel as much of a chore.

I recently finished Uncharted Golden Abyss on the Vita exclusively while commuting - It was actually pretty good for a portable game. Certainly captures the feel of the mainstream titles. Although story wasn't that interesting, game play actually felt a little better but still basically the same. Motion gyro/touch controls do suck a bit but most have traditional alternatives and rarely imposes.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I was going to start playing Horizon on the PS4 but then learned that it is actually a fairly long game. Since i just came out of playing Fallout 4 for like 8 months, I figured I should try to get through the shorter hours games in my backlog.
I didn't find Horizon that long of a game TBH and it take me ages to finish open world games. (like 5 years for RDR:o) The map in Horizon looks huge, but really it doesn't take that long to traverse it and many of the quests just have you going back and forth between areas.

Long story short, I managed to finish it in a couple of months (max) so it can't be that long. It certainly has nowhere near the same amount of content as Fallout.

[DELTAprime]

I didn't find Horizon that long of a game TBH and it take me ages to finish open world games. (like 5 years for RDR:o) The map in Horizon looks huge, but really it doesn't take that long to traverse it and many of the quests just have you going back and forth between areas.

Long story short, I managed to finish it in a couple of months (max) so it can't be that long. It certainly has nowhere near the same amount of content as Fallout.

I'm part way through HZD. The only time consuming part is the collection of crafting mats and collectables. The story and side quest don't seem to be very time consuming. Only around 20 hours if you just do main story according to HLTB.

[DELTAprime]

Sigh. As great as the Xbox One controllers are, durability is not a strong point. In addition to having 2 D-pads become unresponsive in a particular direction since 2013 (both replaced by EB under warranty) I now have the left analog stick on one of my Elite controllers drifting to the left when centered and it also drifts back to centre when pulled to the right.

I have no idea how much Xbox charges to swap out an Elite controller but I'm glad they have the service on their support website because I don't want to buy another $200 controller. Looks like I'll be calling Xbox over the weekend to arrange a replacement.

[Autocon]

Connected the ps4 for the first time to the internet. Updated a game. 5 hours. Not doing that again. Still waiting...

[1AZRAEL1]

Connected the ps4 for the first time to the internet. Updated a game. 5 hours. Not doing that again. Still waiting...

Gone are the days of buying a game and putting it into your gaming system and playing right off the bat. This is the way of gaming now so gotta get used to it. Doom I had to leave my PlayStation on overnight to download its update.

And on that note too, I have paid for my Wolfenstein 2 so Friday morning I'll go out and pick it up before work and get the updates to install whilst I'm at work so I can play when I get home

[DELTAprime]

Gone are the days of buying a game and putting it into your gaming system and playing right off the bat. This is the way of gaming now so gotta get used to it. Doom I had to leave my PlayStation on overnight to download its update.

And on that note too, I have paid for my Wolfenstein 2 so Friday morning I'll go out and pick it up before work and get the updates to install whilst I'm at work so I can play when I get home

Yeah I know for the PC version of Doom we have had multiple patches where the entire game was replaced in a patch. So it started as a 45ish GB download, then we got a 45ish GB patch to remove the Denuvo DRM from it. Then more recently we got a 65ish GB patch for whatever they decided to add to the game. I should just finish the game finally and uninstall the game to save on bandwidth.

[1AZRAEL1]

Yeah I know for the PC version of Doom we have had multiple patches where the entire game was replaced in a patch. So it started as a 45ish GB download, then we got a 45ish GB patch to remove the Denuvo DRM from it. Then more recently we got a 65ish GB patch for whatever they decided to add to the game. I should just finish the game finally and uninstall the game to save on bandwidth.

Haha too right. I bought the PC version, but found out our PCs were too crap to run the game. So had to buy on PS4. It's still a great game, definitely better than Doom3

[prjkt]

Haha too right. I bought the PC version, but found out our PCs were too crap to run the game. So had to buy on PS4. It's still a great game, definitely better than Doom3

My ‘08 Mac (with an aftermarket GTX 960) ran it pretty well at 2560x1080 - very well optimised game compared to some out there.

I’ve actually just re-downloaded it over what feels like a week my my sh*tty by connection - let’s see how the new Ryzen machine handles it...

[1AZRAEL1]

My ‘08 Mac (with an aftermarket GTX 960) ran it pretty well at 2560x1080 - very well optimised game compared to some out there.

I’ve actually just re-downloaded it over what feels like a week my my sh*tty by connection - let’s see how the new Ryzen machine handles it...

I couldn't get it to run properly. I gave up. Missus has a new computer that would be able to run it though. I got good on console anyway

Crappy internet connection bugs me too

[Trent]

Man. I thought my internet was slow when it took 30 minutes to download 14gb the other night. Feel sorry for you guys.

[prjkt]

Man. I thought my internet was slow when it took 30 minutes to download 14gb the other night. Feel sorry for you guys.

That would take me three days.

I’m not sure if it’s due to cabling or distance to the exchange, I’m going to look at the wiring with my time off this week, see if I can get something sorted there, and maybe give my ISP a call.

I couldn't get it to run properly. I gave up. Missus has a new computer that would be able to run it though. I got good on console anyway

Crappy internet connection bugs me toonot sure if it’s applicable but I had an issue with the Alan Wake games where I’d load them up and get maybe 1-2 frames every couple of seconds before even reaching the menu - a fresh reinstall of a windows fixed that easily enough.

[DELTAprime]

I looked a little into a couple of the characters from Shadow of War because they sounded familiar. Looks like WB took real LOTR characters like Idril and Castamir and gave them a complete new story. I have no idea how WB figures this is what happened between the Hobbit and LOTR movies.

I guess LOTR is now a multiverse???

I know some LOTR lore nerds that will be even more upset about this game than the first.

[i_amtrunks]

Wait till you hear about who they turned into ringwraiths... the "kings of men" who were terrorising the lands north of the hobbits thousands of years before the events of the hobbit...

I actually don't mind the Shelton idea of transforming but her new form isn't really suitable to her single mindedness in the books.

All just silly fun that we really shouldn't take any notice of outside the game! :D

[prjkt]

Wait till you hear about who they turned into ringwraiths... the "kings of men" who were terrorising the lands north of the hobbits thousands of years before the events of the hobbit...


Haven’t played the game yet, but are you saying that last part of your statement is what they’ve done, or have they strayed from the original narrative there?

[i_amtrunks]

Haven’t played the game yet, but are you saying that last part of your statement is what they’ve done, or have they strayed from the original narrative there?

They've changed the ringwraiths from generic human kings from the second age to some fairly big and well known names from the third age, that could not possibly be correct in any timeline.

Some died/were turned only hundreds of years before the Hobbit (or even closer) while the nine ringwraiths were terrorising the lands of Arnor and Middle Earth in general for thousands of years prior!

[prjkt]

Ah
Good thing this game’s story isn’t canon then

[1AZRAEL1]

Sounds like they are really taking creative control of the Tolkienverse. And people complained about what Jackson did...

[Autocon]

Half the skills and stuff in Knight I didn't even touch (like bullet resistance and gliding batarangs). I really enjoyed it and found a few of the new things rather fun, but there are some sections that were a little tedious.

For example, all the tanks battles. I really didn't find them very fun. But I did enjoy the chases and other things that involved the batmobile. I do wish that they had more sections that required stealth though. I felt that since Asylum, they've been moving away from the stealth mechanic and focusing more on the combat.

I did like the bank heist missions, with the time limit and option to go hard and fast on the stealthiness, but generally, there was a lack of stealth. Which made me sad

I found there were avenues to be stealthy with main story missions but not with the militia side stuff. Agree they need to go more stealthy. The controls were a bit dicky with all the combinations trying to hit them at the right time. Might be doing dc justice league movie tie in game.

[BigTransformerTrev]

My missus bought me Ghostbusters on the Wii years ago but I always wanted to play the PlayStation version.

Borrowed the new GB movie from the library. The one thing the movie achieved for me was to make me nostalgic enough to want to play as the original cast so I dug out the old PS3 and bought a sealed GB game for $20 on eBay.

Enjoying it so far. I wonder whatever happened to my Atari 2600 Ghostbusters game? Probably worth a fortune now.

[prjkt]

Preordered he physical PC copy of Destiny 2 in the hopes that I’d be able to install of disc.

Nope

68Gb download at <3Mbps....

[kup]

Finished Uncharted 4 over the weekend. It was actually a pretty good game, at least as good or better than the second instalment. It still suffers from repetitive shoot out sequences but overall they are handled better than previous games for sure. Another thing that was a welcome change of pace was that the ending makes sense and doesn't go into crazy which is a huge contrast to the building plot earlier as per previous games.

Overall enjoyed it.

I now need to decide what 'short' game to play next. I want to get a few out of the way before I go into another game that takes hundreds of hours to complete.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Play Uncharted Lost Legacy then. About 6 hours of gameplay much in the same vein as UC4.

[philby]

I'm pretty disappointed about the Star Wars Game That Totally Isn't Uncharted:
Star Wars getting effectively cancelled and "re-focused for a broader audience" :rolleyes: I cannot wait until EA loses its exclusive rights for games development with Star Wars.





Moving on, and I’ve preordered Battlefront 2.

nooooooooooooo

[kup]

EA is concentrating purely on Online multiplayer games for the micro transactions. It explains why they are closing studios they acquired that are known for single player games.

It's a shame as some of those studios have a great history going back several years. Bioware for example which has shown a steady decline since EA took over and probably next in the chopping board. No more Dragon Age, Mass Effect, etc at least not as we would want them to be.

At least this may encourage other companies to make their own new IPs.

[DELTAprime]

What's scary is that EA is not yet doing everything they can to get people to use microtransactions. If they wanted to increase the amount of money they get from microtransactions they would include for "free" with the purchase of the game a sizable amount of in game currency and use it to train the player to use microtransactions like free to play games do.

I want this year's Need For Speed game, but I'm afraid they are going to microtransaction the hell out of it so I'm waiting for reviews.

[Autocon]

I updated batman knight. For 5 hours all i got was three new skins and one is locked out. I cant see anything different? Do games nowadays still have the content on the disc but its locked till your purchase the dlc?

[DELTAprime]

I updated batman knight. For 5 hours all i got was three new skins and one is locked out. I cant see anything different? Do games nowadays still have the content on the disc but its locked till your purchase the dlc?

Depends on the game. Sometimes content is baked into the core game download either from day one or added in a patch and you purchase a key to unlock it, but sometimes it's a completely separate download.

Best way to tell if DLC is part of the main game install is from how big the DLC is. Around 10-15mb or less and it's likely built into the game.

Most devs are putting the DLC into the main game files these days just for compatibility reasons, especially if the game has online components.

[Autocon]

Depends on the game. Sometimes content is baked into the core game download either from day one or added in a patch and you purchase a key to unlock it, but sometimes it's a completely separate download.

Best way to tell if DLC is part of the main game install is from how big the DLC is. Around 10-15mb or less and it's likely built into the game.

Most devs are putting the DLC into the main game files these days just for compatibility reasons, especially if the game has online components.

This was 45mb and unless there were patches to fix bugs its alot for three extra models.


Anyone know how to unlock the ? model in batman knight?

[DELTAprime]

Not sure what platform you are on but I think you're confusing a patch (update) and DLC. All of Arkham Knights patches are pretty big (some over a gigabyte) and the last patch for the game was released over a year ago and weighed in at over 600mb. Those are rolled into the main install of your game on most platforms.

If you are seeing a separate file of 45mb then that will be DLC and not a patch. 45mb is actually not enough for costumes in this day and age, it's probably a key to unlock something in the up to 55gb that make up the install of Arkham Knight (though a key should only need to be 10mb to 15mb). I'm guessing you either bought some DLC for it digitally or entered a download key that came with a physical copy and forgot.

Best way to find out how to unlock a specific item in any isn't to ask here, we are not a large enough community. Just goto Google and search for the information you require. For example if you wanted to know how to unlock the Lamborghini Aventador in the 2012 remake of Need For Speed Most Wanted you would Google "NFS Most Wanted 2012 Aventador Unlock" and you will find videos and forum post with the information.

[prjkt]

so Destiny 2 is a bit of fun, upto lvl 13 I think, just collected the Vanguard.

After a couple of work around attempts I managed to get my Steam Controller working nicely, and the game is pretty well optimised - handles 2560x1080 with "High" settings + a few other options switched on with my GTX 960 very well - usually around 50-55fps. A decent port for a change in that regards.

Haven't done much in the multi-player side of things, maybe once I've finished the campaign.

[DELTAprime]

So Nintendo says it has shipped 7.36 million Switches and 1.7 million SNES Classics as of the 30th of September. So things are looking rather good for Nintendo.

Would have been nice to know how many Switches have been sold not shipped though. But you can bet almost every single SNES Classic shipped has been sold.

Also just watch the Last of Us 2 trailer. That thing is way too dark and brutal for me to enjoy.

[SharkyMcShark]

I can't quite figure out what EA are doing with the Star Wars license to be honest. They're more than 3 years into a 10 year exclusivity deal and have released a single game, though I will grant you that Battlefront 2 is due in 3 weeks. Aside from that they've only got two other Star Wars confirmed projects on the go at the moment - the action-adventure that just got taken off Visceral and an RPG neither of which are due until 2019. Surely you'd think they'd be pumping out the releases hard and fast given that the popularity of the movies and the franchise as a whole peaked in 2015 and seems to be gradually declining from GODLIKE to STANDARD MEGA HYPE.

I think the lack of service has annoyed me doubly in that there are so many different genres to canvas in that universe as well - first person shooters, third person shooters/action adventures, racing games, flight combat games, role playing games and real time strategy games.

There's a fantastic detailed read on Kotaku at the moment about how the Visceral Star Wars game collapse was partially because the whole thing was a mess. (https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/10/the-collapse-of-viscerals-ambitiousstar-wars-game/) A lot of damning content there for EA's management of the project.

I guess I'm just yearning for more of the games that were so seminal to me as a child and young adult - Rogue Squadron/Leader, Podracer, Jedi Knight/Academy, KOTOR1/2, The Force Unleashed, Galactic Battlegrounds, Shadows of the Empire (!!).

[1AZRAEL1]

You're not wrong ay. I hated Battlefront. It was a stock standard mostly online game. I don't have time for those kinds of games, so wasn't paying a monthly fee to PlayStation Plus to hardly use it.

Instead, I bought a lot of the old classic SW games from GOG, now to find the time to play them hahaha. Buying Xwing and Tie Fighter gives you the option to play which ever of the 3 versions that was released which I find great

[Autocon]

Found out what was wrong. The stupid thing was trying to download multiple updates to most of the games at the same time! I stopped that and its all good now:cool:

[DELTAprime]

So I just got a delivery from Toll. I wasn't sure what was inside because it was a really heavy package and the only two things I was expecting was my HLJ order and a replacement body for my Xbox One Elite Controller that was getting replaced under warranty.

Turns out that even though Microsoft said to remove everything from the controller including sticks, paddles, dpad and battery door they sent me back a complete brand new Elite Controller in retail packaging.

So the only cost to me was for a box from Australia Post and in return Xbox covered all shipping and sent me back a brand new $200 controller. Not bad service at all.

[prjkt]

So the only cost to me was for a box from Australia Post and in return Xbox covered all shipping and sent me back a brand new $200 controller. Not bad service at all.

It's easier (and cheaper) to replace rather than repair for little things like that - happens a lot with camera gear, especially the waterproof stuff.

Back in the day of the old iRiver portable music players, I had an old iHP 140 that had it's headphone jack come loose, so I sent it in for warranty, and got a full, retail package of the replacement H340 arrive a week or so later.

[DELTAprime]

Played some of Need For Speed Payback. If you like Need For Speed like me then you will probably enjoy this game despite some aspects of gameplay feeling aged but otherwise there's nothing here to win over new audiences.

I didn't see any microtransactions for in game items, but going by some of the systems in the game I bet EA was intending to add microtransactions at some point in development.

[prjkt]

I don’t think I’ve played NFS since #3 - Hot Pursuit?

I still remember loving the original one on my dad’s brand new Win95 machine. Neither of us knew how to use Explorer so we navigated using the command prompt

[DELTAprime]

I was thinking of buying Assassin's Creed Origins since it's getting good reviews. But the PC version won't be the version I get if I do. They have two DRM systems on the game (probably three if you're playing on Steam cause of Steam's DRM) and it's hammering CPU's to the point people with complete bawler overkill systems are getting less than 30fps on medium settings.

I guess I'll play on Xbox One X if I get it.

[prjkt]

I was thinking of buying Assassin's Creed Origins since it's getting good reviews. But the PC version won't be the version I get if I do. They have two DRM systems on the game (probably three if you're playing on Steam cause of Steam's DRM) and it's hammering CPU's to the point people with complete bawler overkill systems are getting less than 30fps on medium settings.

I guess I'll play on Xbox One X if I get it.

uhhhh gotta love that... not.

Rime had the same issues, luckily the devs killed the DRM as soon as it was cracked

[Autocon]

Any value in old PC games or should I just bin them all?

Games:
Transformers The Game
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
FarCry
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Tomb Raider: Legend
Quake 4: Special DVD edition!
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
Fear gold edition
Fear 2
Fear Perseus Mandate
Whole heap of Command&Conquer/Red Alert
Edit: found a couple more
Saints row 2
Medal of Honour: Pacific Assault
GTA 4

[prjkt]

I have about half those

Problem with PC games is most nowadays are permanently linked to an account, some you even need to pay a fee to sell the thing from memory

Most of those should be OK to stick on eBay and see what people want to pay (just check Steam etc to see what their being sold for “new”)

The Fear sequels might tempt me though...

[DarkHyren]

Any value in old PC games or should I just bin them all?Depends. If any of them are steamworks/uplay/origin only and require binding keys to your account (and you've done so) or require GFWL then yeah not worth much for play value.
The disks are only really worth it if you collect the physical media, but even then they dont sell for much to collectors unless it's a super collectors edition that was limited in numbers. Most of these sorts of things end up in charity stores for $1.
I'd take the TF and C&C ones off your hands just to have physical copies for my PC games shelf but honestly just the postage might be paying more then they are worth lol.
The Fear sequels might tempt me though...Just an FYI, Fear 2: Project Origin (assuming that's the "Fear 2" Autocon has and not "Extraction Point") required Steam authorization, so it's probably worthless if it is that and has been used.
All the Fear games have been had their steam keys bundled for like $1 and will do so again most likely, so that's an option if you just want them to play.

[kup]

Old 'big' PC boxes hold a lot of collector value but games from the 'DVD box' era not so much unless they are a special edition to a popular game.

[Ralph Wiggum]

If it’s a space issue then just get one of those CD albums and keep the disc/manual/key. That’s what I’ve done and I have a ton of games tucked under my desk.

[DELTAprime]

Also most of those games are available on Steam and most people prefer to buy Steam digital copies over physical in the PC gaming realm. All those games could easily be bought for under $5 each on a Steam sale. So not good for the value of old PC games.

I paid something like $10 (total) a couple of years ago for every single C&C game ever made. At that point I threw out all my disk copies. That's what you're up against when it comes to value of PC games.

[kup]

Also most of those games are available on Steam and most people prefer to buy Steam digital copies over physical in the PC gaming realm. All those games could easily be bought for under $5 each on a Steam sale. So not good for the value of old PC games.

I paid something like $10 (total) a couple of years ago for every single C&C game ever made. At that point I threw out all my disk copies. That's what you're up against when it comes to value of PC games.

Aren't CD copies of classic C&C games, specially with boxes fairly valuable?

[DELTAprime]

Aren't CD copies of classic C&C games, specially with boxes fairly valuable?

If they are it wouldn't be for the condition I had them in. I always threw out the big box and all that stuff, just kept the jewel case and disk.

[DarkHyren]

Aren't CD copies of classic C&C games, specially with boxes fairly valuable?If they were they arent really anymore, sure on ebay you might see a boxed copy of the original C&C listed for $30-50 but it's likely that the sellers are refusing to budge on price, because if you check sold listings most C&C games sold for a few dollars.
It's just not in demand, especially when you can get Command and Conquer: The Ultimate Edition which has all the games in it for under $20

[DELTAprime]

Today I tried to use the refund request process for change of mind on Xbox. Despite the process being clearly described in Xbox's terms as any game bought less than 14 days ago and played for less than two hours (which I bought today and played for 30 minutes), Microsoft, or at least their asian call centre claimed all purchases are final.

After doing the whole "ACCC says refusal to give refunds is against the law" routine they gave me a one off refund. (and yes I know the ACCC doesn't say anything about change of mind but it worked)

They didn't even care that Microsoft's own policy says Xbox gives refunds on any full game download if you bought it less than 14 days ago and played less than 2 hours for any reason (which includes change of mind).

Anyone know a way to get in touch with someone here in Australia or in Redmond, WA and report these stupid call centre workers?

[SharkyMcShark]

Today I tried to use the refund request process for change of mind on Xbox. Despite the process being clearly described in Xbox's terms as any game bought less than 14 days ago and played for less than two hours (which I bought today and played for 30 minutes), Microsoft, or at least their asian call centre claimed all purchases are final.

After doing the whole "ACCC says refusal to give refunds is against the law" routine they gave me a one off refund. (and yes I know the ACCC doesn't say anything about change of mind but it worked)

They didn't even care that Microsoft's own policy says Xbox gives refunds on any full game download if you bought it less than 14 days ago and played less than 2 hours for any reason (which includes change of mind).

Anyone know a way to get in touch with someone here in Australia or in Redmond, WA and report these stupid call centre workers?

Vendors just make crap up when it comes to having to comply with legislative refund obligations. It's predatory bs.

About 18 months ago I bought FIFA16 for Xbox360 accidentally, instead of Xbone. I realised about 45 seconds after leaving the shop, turned around, walked back in, presented the still shrink wrapped box and explained to the man who had just sold the damn thing to me that I'd mistakenly grabbed the wrong version, and asked if I could refund/exchange it for the Xbone version and pay the difference in price.

"Oh, well as you're not a member of our EB World Club we can't refund or exchange that, sorry"

I'm loathe to play this card normally but I basically told the guy I was a practising lawyer and that we both knew that EB had to fulfill legal obligations to all customers and not just those who were on their mailing list.

I was granted the usual 'one time only exemption fully at the discretion of the store just this time only'. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Autocon]

All the games a physical copies with boxes. I was thinking something like $10 each. Pity about the steam activation, I forgot about that, its a waste of a game. :(

Just found some more games. Such a waste:( I will always prefer physical copies

[DELTAprime]

Vendors just make crap up when it comes to having to comply with legislative refund obligations. It's predatory bs.

About 18 months ago I bought FIFA16 for Xbox360 accidentally, instead of Xbone. I realised about 45 seconds after leaving the shop, turned around, walked back in, presented the still shrink wrapped box and explained to the man who had just sold the damn thing to me that I'd mistakenly grabbed the wrong version, and asked if I could refund/exchange it for the Xbone version and pay the difference in price.

"Oh, well as you're not a member of our EB World Club we can't refund or exchange that, sorry"

I'm loathe to play this card normally but I basically told the guy I was a practising lawyer and that we both knew that EB had to fulfill legal obligations to all customers and not just those who were on their mailing list.

I was granted the usual 'one time only exemption fully at the discretion of the store just this time only'. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I found Phil Spencer's @microsoft.com email address on a listing of CEO's email addresses. I've had good luck in the past emailing executives both here and internationally about bad customer services experiences so I sent one to him.

Explained that I'd been using their products for a really long time (since the OG Xbox, man I'm old), how great the company has been to me and told him what happened today and asked that the refund policy is made clear to all customer service staff.

Not asking for a million dollars compensation or anything stupid, just asking that the policy is clear to all.

[DarkHyren]

"Oh, well as you're not a member of our EB World Club we can't refund or exchange that, sorry"Wow what a load of BS, highly illegal, I would have demanded a refund and told him that if he didnt I'd be reporting his store to the ACCC.
Then after I got the refund I'd report the store to the ACCC and put it on my personal blacklist, scumbags like that dont deserve customer loyalty.
All the games a physical copies with boxes. I was thinking something like $10 eachWell you can try listing them on ebay and maybe you'll get lucky but yeah check the sold listings for each item first to get an idea of how likely each is to sell and for how much.
If there's one copy that sold at $20 but 10 copies that sold at $2 then I think it's safe to say that you wont get the $20 (or $10).

[Trent]

I found Phil Spencer's @microsoft.com email address on a listing of CEO's email addresses. I've had good luck in the past emailing executives both here and internationally about bad customer services experiences so I sent one to him.

Explained that I'd been using their products for a really long time (since the OG Xbox, man I'm old), how great the company has been to me and told him what happened today and asked that the refund policy is made clear to all customer service staff.

Not asking for a million dollars compensation or anything stupid, just asking that the policy is clear to all.

I'd be really interested to hear how that goes. I would almost guarantee that the CEO of Microsoft can't be emailed by just anyone. Either, as an unrecognised email address, it gets diverted/auto deleted, or he has a PA that intercepts his emails and he/she will divert it to the general customer service mailbox. Because imagine the emails this guy gets sent and the quantity they get sent in...

[DELTAprime]

I'd be really interested to hear how that goes. I would almost guarantee that the CEO of Microsoft can't be emailed by just anyone. Either, as an unrecognised email address, it gets diverted/auto deleted, or he has a PA that intercepts his emails and he/she will divert it to the general customer service mailbox. Because imagine the emails this guy gets sent and the quantity they get sent in...

I've never had any email I've sent to a CEO or in this case Senior VP ignored. I'm sure some companies have an assistant read the emails but if a customer takes the time to email an executive about an issue they normally are responsive as long as the person emailing is not a dick about it. It's not publicly acknowledged but most big companies actually have entire teams dedicated to this job.

When I had an issue with my Apple Music subscription from Telstra that resulted in Telstra and Apple both pointing fingers at each other saying "it's their fault go talk to them" I emailed Tim Cook and the next day the Senior VP in charge of Apple Music in Australia gave me a personal phone call apologising and getting me setup with an engineer in Cupertino who fixed the problem. I wasn't the only one with the issue but I got Apple to stop pointing the finger and take ownership of the problem and fix it for myself and the others that were getting jerked around by both companies technical support.

As for my email to Phil Spencer I got an email in early hours of this morning back from a special support level at Microsoft apologising for the issue saying it shouldn't have happened and crediting my Microsoft Account $20. Unfortunately in this case they didn't mention any corrective action with the support staff.

So yeah I've done this about 4 or 5 times always resulting in at least an apology. You don't normally get a response from the executive you're emailing but they take emails to them seriously as long as you're polite.

[DELTAprime]

Obviously the overwhelmingly negative feedback from fans and press is getting to EA on Star Wars Battlefront 2. They have temporarily removed microtransactions from the game. If they would just make it a permanent change and make the progression a bit easier I'd actually buy the game.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/11/16/16668218/star-wars-battlefront-2-microtransactions-removed

[philby]

shame about battlefront 2. I was almost tempted but the campaign is only about 5 hours long or something and I'm just not really interested in grindy multiplayer. I don't think the micro transactions will stay removed forever, they have basically built the whole game around that.

[prjkt]

I picked up BF2 on Friday, started installing Friday night. Apart from an hour or so here and there playing Destiny, it's been downloading 24/7. Only finished installing overnight.
Had it on preorder for full price at EB, but they match the JB one day only sale and I put the difference on the remake of Outcast.

[DELTAprime]

I picked up BF2 on Friday, started installing Friday night. Apart from an hour or so here and there playing Destiny, it's been downloading 24/7. Only finished installing overnight.

I know the pain. I'm having to redownload some of my Xbox One X games because they could not be copied from my old hard drive to the new one I picked up on Sunday. At this rate I think everything that didn't transfer will be redownloaded by Sunday.:(:rolleyes:

[DELTAprime]

Just a heads up. If you're going to buy a physical copy of a game in the coming days you might be able to get a good deal from EB Games. Instead of their annual Mad Monday Sale they are doing a Black Friday sale that runs from 12:01am Friday to an unspecified time on Monday and it's both in store and online unlike Mad Monday which is online only.

I'm going to see how much they drop last year's Call of Duty game by. $57 for both Infinite Warfare and Modern Warfare is still too much for me.

[DELTAprime]

And I just got tomorrow's Big W catalogue, pretty big discounts on recently released games.

CoD WWII $64, ACO $59, Destiny 2 $49, Shadow of War $54, South Park $59, Evil Within 2 $54, Wolfenstien 2 $54, GTA V $44, Horizon ZD $32, Uncharted LL $20, Overwatch $44, Ghost Recon $24, Titanfall 2 $24, BF1 $39, ARK $59, WWE 2K18 $49, NFS Payback $59, GT Sport $32, Fifa 18 $54, Crash Trilogy $42, Forza Motorsport 7 $49, Mass Effect Andromeda $20, Project Cars 2 $42, NBA 2K18 $59, Rayman (Switch) $39, Mario + Rabbids $64.

[Paulbot]

I haven't played Uncharted 4 yet so no spoilers for that game please, but the Uncharted Lost Legacy game - is that like bonus add-on levels (like that Last of Us add on), a multiplayer thing, or a standalone game in the same style as the main Uncharted series but with a different lead character? ($20 seems pretty cheap for it)

[christalcase]

I haven't played Uncharted 4 yet so no spoilers for that game please, but the Uncharted Lost Legacy game - is that like bonus add-on levels (like that Last of Us add on), a multiplayer thing, or a standalone game in the same style as the main Uncharted series but with a different lead character? ($20 seems pretty cheap for it)

It is a standalone game that originally started as DLC but then grew bigger. It's shorter than Uncharted 4 and reuses a lot of the gameplay, hence the cheaper price (originally released at around $40). It's a new story following a different lead character, for $20, it is definitely worth it.

[DELTAprime]

I should probably point out the deals at Big W only go to the 27th for some reason.

I'm going to grab Ghost Recon for the Xbox One X and GT Sport for PS4 Pro. Every multiplatform game is advertised for both Xbox and PlayStation except for Project Cars 2 and Mass Effect which are only advertised for PS4, if this is a misprint and it's also on Xbox I'll grab Project Cars for the X also.

[Paulbot]

It is a standalone game that originally started as DLC but then grew bigger. It's shorter than Uncharted 4 and reuses a lot of the gameplay, hence the cheaper price (originally released at around $40). It's a new story following a different lead character, for $20, it is definitely worth it.

Thanks!

[prjkt]

Just a heads up. If you're going to buy a physical copy of a game in the coming days you might be able to get a good deal from EB Games. Instead of their annual Mad Monday Sale they are doing a Black Friday sale that runs from 12:01am Friday to an unspecified time on Monday and it's both in store and online unlike Mad Monday which is online only.

I'm going to see how much they drop last year's Call of Duty game by. $57 for both Infinite Warfare and Modern Warfare is still too much for me.

Thanks for the heads up - might see what they have South Park for, I'm working Fri/Sat in centre and have to pickup Outcast on Sat anyway

EDIT: ugggghhhhhh day 2 after BF2 finally installs and there's an update I have to download

EDIT2: interesting.... (https://powerup-gaming.com/2017/11/22/victorian-gambling-authority-loot-boxes-gambling/) turns out the Vic Gambling Authority has decided loot boxes are gambling, but as per usual, is powerless to take action.

[DELTAprime]

EDIT2: interesting.... (https://powerup-gaming.com/2017/11/22/victorian-gambling-authority-loot-boxes-gambling/) turns out the Vic Gambling Authority has decided loot boxes are gambling, but as per usual, is powerless to take action.

Yeah saw that yesterday and to add to the governments looking into loot boxes both Belgium and Hawaii are looking into banning them. As Jeff Gerstmann pointed out on yesterday's Giant Bombcast and I agree with him, you don't want US lawmakers getting involved in this but EU lawmakers are generally more consumer friendly and more likely to do a good job of it.

https://www.techspot.com/news/71997-belgium-hawaii-fighting-back-against-loot-boxes-asks.html

[Paulbot]

And I just got tomorrow's Big W catalogue, pretty big discounts on recently released games.

CoD WWII $64, ACO $59, Destiny 2 $49, Shadow of War $54, South Park $59, Evil Within 2 $54, Wolfenstien 2 $54, GTA V $44, Horizon ZD $32, Uncharted LL $20, Overwatch $44, Ghost Recon $24, Titanfall 2 $24, BF1 $39, ARK $59, WWE 2K18 $49, NFS Payback $59, GT Sport $32, Fifa 18 $54, Crash Trilogy $42, Forza Motorsport 7 $49, Mass Effect Andromeda $20, Project Cars 2 $42, NBA 2K18 $59, Rayman (Switch) $39, Mario + Rabbids $64.


I should probably point out the deals at Big W only go to the 27th for some reason.

And also point out the prices don't start until 24th (as I just discovered when I went to the store).

[DELTAprime]

And also point out the prices don't start until 24th (as I just discovered when I went to the store).

I just found that the hard way also, walked into work to buy the games and found it didn't start till tomorrow. Not normal for a Big W sale to start on Friday. Sorry I missed that stipulation. At least I wasn't the only one, lots of customers have done the same and even the staff in tech thought it started today until they were informed yesterday afternoon it was Friday.

[Paulbot]

Yep no biggie. Some other games had sale price tags out but not sure if same ones. Obviously this sale is a Black Friday/Cyber Monday tie in. Curious to see the prices EB and JB might have on games.

[DELTAprime]

Yep no biggie. Some other games had sale price tags out but not sure if same ones. Obviously this sale is a Black Friday/Cyber Monday tie in. Curious to see the prices EB and JB might have on games.

Here's an email I got from EB earlier for Black Friday. Mostly hardware listed but we will have to see at 11:01pm AEST when the site refreshes as to what else is on sale. http://links.ebw.ebgames.com.au/servlet/MailView?ms=NTU0MjAzOTES1&r=NTEwODgxMzg2NDQS1&j=MTI4NDAxNzM2NAS2&mt=1&rt=0

I think GT Sport must have bombed hard, or Sony sold way more to retailers than they could reasonably expect to sell to consumers. A $99 game from last month on sale at Big W for $32 and EB Games for $89 with an official PS4 controller included.

[DELTAprime]

There's a 12gb demo up on Steam, PSN and Xbox Live for Wolfenstein II. Save data transfers over to the full game, and the full game is 50% off.

So question for people that have played both Wolfenstein I and II. Do I need to have completed the first game to enjoy the story of the new game?

I never got through the intro of the first game, I keep hearing it started really slow and got better but I never could convince myself to get through the opening.

[Gutsman Heavy]

There's a 12gb demo up on Steam, PSN and Xbox Live for Wolfenstein II. Save data transfers over to the full game, and the full game is 50% off.

So question for people that have played both Wolfenstein I and II. Do I need to have completed the first game to enjoy the story of the new game?

I never got through the intro of the first game, I keep hearing it started really slow and got better but I never could convince myself to get through the opening.

TNO is better than Colossus so you'd be much better off going back and finishing it up

[kup]

I have avoided Wolfenstein II user reviews in order to prevent spoilers but from what I gather, complaints are that it's too hard. That is not really a complain since most games are certainly too easy these days.

There is a sale on so I may pick it up on that but in no huge hurry as I have a lot of games to play.

[Gutsman Heavy]

I have avoided Wolfenstein II user reviews in order to prevent spoilers but from what I gather, complaints are that it's too hard. That is not really a complain since most games are certainly too easy these days.

There is a sale on so I may pick it up on that but in no huge hurry as I have a lot of games to play.

lol havent heard that. Biggest issue I have is that it's short and has way too many cut-scenes.

[kup]

lol havent heard that. Biggest issue I have is that it's short and has way too many cut-scenes.

They are mostly on Steam.

Oddly enough, if it's short is appealing to me as I don't have a lot of gaming time these days. If i were long, it would justify the Switch version but Steam will do.

[DELTAprime]

They are mostly on Steam.

Oddly enough, if it's short is appealing to me as I don't have a lot of gaming time these days. If i were long, it would justify the Switch version but Steam will do.

Yeah I've heard it's got tons of great sequences and an ok story, but it's punishingly hard and not in the good Dark Souls way. I have no issue with cut scenes if it's showing me something cool or interesting.

Anyway I got GT Sport, Project Cars 2 (yes the Xbox version is included in Big W's sale despite what the catalogue says) and Ghost Recon Wildlands. All of which each need 10 to 15gbs of updates. Good thing Telstra has changed me over to an unlimited plan, too bad my speed isn't great.

[christalcase]

There's a lot of good PS4 games on sale for Black Friday, it's a great time to stock up.

Big W has most of the first-party games at $20: Uncharted 4, Uncharted Lost Legacy, Wipeout Omega Collection, Everybody's Golf, Knack II, Ratchet & Clank

While JB Hi Fi has a lot of others at $24: Drive Club, Last of Us, Diablo III, Journey, God of War III, Heavy Rain & Beyond Two Souls, No Man's Sky, Gravity Rush 2, Nioh, The Last Guardian

Not to mention that earlier this afternoon, JB Hi Fi had GT Sport and the PS4 controller for $69!

[Trent]

JB had the Switch on sale for $399 yesterday so I caved. Got MK8 to have a go at and it's fun, if a little easy.

Is Splatoon 2 any good?

[DaptoDog]

JB had the Switch on sale for $399 yesterday so I caved. Got MK8 to have a go at and it's fun, if a little easy.

Is Splatoon 2 any good?

Splatoon 2 is an acquired taste. I bought it for my son months ago but he and I just haven't gotten into it.

[kup]

JB had the Switch on sale for $399 yesterday so I caved. Got MK8 to have a go at and it's fun, if a little easy.

Is Splatoon 2 any good?

remember to turn off driver assist.

[Trent]

remember to turn off driver assist.

Yeah that got me for a while. Couldn't figure out what was going on.

[DELTAprime]

Got MK8 to have a go at and it's fun, if a little easy.


Also remember the game gets harder as you increase from 50cc through to 200cc. Personally I feel 200cc ruins the feel of the series as it requires lots of use of the breaks instead of powersliding but 150cc and mirror are great challenges that feel true to the series.

[Trent]

Also remember the game gets harder as you increase from 50cc through to 200cc. Personally I feel 200cc ruins the feel of the series as it requires lots of use of the breaks instead of powersliding but 150cc and mirror are great challenges that feel true to the series.

Yeah 200cc surprised me. I haven't played a Nintendo since the 64 (which I still have, but it looks like garbage on my TV). I tried it almost immediately and came 5th in the Flower Cup. Considering I haven't played MK in at least 10 years, had no idea of how the game really worked and had absolutely no idea about the tracks, I thought even that was a bit easy... or I'm just THAT good :p

Keen to pick up Zelda now.

[DELTAprime]

I tried it almost immediately and came 5th in the Flower Cup. Considering I haven't played MK in at least 10 years, had no idea of how the game really worked and had absolutely no idea about the tracks, I thought even that was a bit easy... or I'm just THAT good :p


5th isn't good in Mario Kart. The gameplay design in Mario Kart is setup so you should be coming in the top 3 at worst. The AI and pickups are rubber banding mechanics designed to have you either in first or close to it without getting a huge lead. Get too bigger lead, you'll get hit with a blue shell and the AI will speed up. If you're too far back in the pack and you'll get an invincibility star plus the AI will slow down.

Anyway I'm going to be interested in a couple of weeks when everyone's GOTY awards get released to see who puts what game as their GOTY. I'm thinking it's going to be a three way fight this years between Zelda BOTW, Mario Odyssey and PUBG, though some outlets won't consider PUBG because it's 1.0 release is coming in late December.

[prjkt]

yeah that'll be an interesting list. There've been some really good games across all platforms this year.
my favourite this year has been Prey.
Haven't played a great many that have come out, though I'm looking to get South Park, and maybe Wolfenstein after Christmas. Destiny 2 has been fun, not enough time in Battlefront 2 to judge yet though.

[DELTAprime]

I was just going through my owned but not currently installed games on Xbox One X.

When the hell did I buy Sonic Adventure 2? I really don't like the 3D Sonic games but apparently at some point I bought one. I must have been half asleep or on cold and flu medicine or something when I bought it.:rolleyes:

[DELTAprime]

Ouch. Just got home from work, put in the disk for COD IW/MW that I picked up from EB on my way to work and it requires almost 100gbs of updates to the games to be installed.

Slow internet be damned!

[prjkt]

Bloody hell that’d be two weeks continuous for me

I’ve been playing Outcast: Second Contact a bit today, remake of the old ‘99 game.

It’s like a weird hybrid of today’s and last century’s games - graphics are drastically improved, yet the actual level design doesn’t look much different - like they’ve just put a new “HD” layer over the top. Gameplay, controls and audio are almost the same as the original - a little awkward nowadays.

[DELTAprime]

Amazon's Australian prices on Xbox One and PS4 games are pretty good. Switch pricing isn't so good, it's more like RRP. PC prices are a bit all over the place.

https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/search/ref=sr_hi_1?rh=n%3A4852675051&bbn=4852675051&ie=UTF8&qid=1512530951

[DELTAprime]

I finished watching this year's Game Awards.

Spoilers if you care about that for an awards show...






I'm not surprised Horizon ZD got snubbed, for every person that thinks it's amazing there's someone that thinks it's not that good. I'm personally in the "I want to love it, but something's not clicking" category.

I must be becoming a curmudgeon because some of the reveals had me thinking "WTF is this crap?".

I don't see why people love Hideo Kojima, that Death Stranding trailer is the biggest nonsensical BS he has ever made.

How on Earth did Forza Motorsport 7 win best sports/racing game? I play it daily but it launched as a buggy mess with promised features missing. It's only now getting to a state where I'd be comfortable recommending it to more casual racing gamers. That said GT Sport and Project Cars 2 are even more unrecommendable, but for different reasons. Surely F1 2017, DIRT 4, Madden or FIFA would have been a better choice.

I'm glad I'm not the only person that feels Zelda BOTW is the best game this year.

[1AZRAEL1]

Medievil has been announced for a 4K remaster for PS4. I am excited

[Trent]

I finished watching this year's Game Awards.

Spoilers if you care about that for an awards show...






I'm not surprised Horizon ZD got snubbed, for every person that thinks it's amazing there's someone that thinks it's not that good. I'm personally in the "I want to love it, but something's not clicking" category.

I must be becoming a curmudgeon because some of the reveals had me thinking "WTF is this crap?".

I don't see why people love Hideo Kojima, that Death Stranding trailer is the biggest nonsensical BS he has ever made.

How on Earth did Forza Motorsport 7 win best sports/racing game? I play it daily but it launched as a buggy mess with promised features missing. It's only now getting to a state where I'd be comfortable recommending it to more casual racing gamers. That said GT Sport and Project Cars 2 are even more unrecommendable, but for different reasons. Surely F1 2017, DIRT 4, Madden or FIFA would have been a better choice.

I'm glad I'm not the only person that feels Zelda BOTW is the best game this year.

That's the thing with Horizon; it's a pretty good game. But the more you play it, the more you are left wanting. I really liked the story and will pick up Frozen Wilds at some stage. But I bought BOTW the other day and while I'm only about 6 hours in, I completely understand why it got GOTY and it is so far above everything else it's ridiculous.

God I despise racing sims. They are so boring. But I used to track my WRX so I guess I'm used to the real thing.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I'm personally in the "I want to love it, but something's not clicking" category.



I don't see why people love Hideo Kojima, that Death Stranding trailer is the biggest nonsensical BS he has ever made.


Are you me? I feel the same way about Horizon. Sure the graphics looked great, but really, you were so directed along paths it was ridiculous. Evrn the story to me was only slightly better than "OK."

As for Death Stranding... The only thing I'm interested in that game is, is the name just Horrible Japanese english word mutilation (Like Re-Vengence), or a clever pun.
Like strands of death.
Stranded by death (somehow)
Or standing and strand or stranded combined?

That is ALL I care about. And not even that much.

[DELTAprime]

Transformers games are con sale again on Xbox Live for both 360 and One.

https://majornelson.com/2017/12/18/this-weeks-deals-with-gold-and-spotlight-sale-111/

Has anyone picked up either of the current gen versions of FOC? I never really have given any thought to the rerelease of it.

[DELTAprime]

End of year sales have started on all the big platforms except Nintendo's.

Anyone buying anything in this sale?

I was going to pull the trigger on Nier Automata but it's not in either the Steam or PSN sales.:(

[DELTAprime]

I think someone at Sony owned Naughty Dog needs to learn not to bite the hand that feeds him on Twitter...

https://wccftech.com/uncharted-director-slams-gt-sport-online/

[DELTAprime]

This is interesting. 2017 games that were censored/banned. (https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/31/16836138/the-year-in-video-game-censorship)

Somehow Australia only got one entry on the list. New Zealand on the other hand looks like the new Australia banning multiple games.

Anime games seem to be consistently censored in the west and WWII games are obviously consistently censored in Germany.

Japan apparently has some aversion to extreme violence I didn't realise.

Overall not a bad year in censorship unless you really want underdressed anime characters in the west or Nazi symbology in Germany.

[Trent]

I think someone at Sony owned Naughty Dog needs to learn not to bite the hand that feeds him on Twitter...

https://wccftech.com/uncharted-director-slams-gt-sport-online/

Regardless of who employs you, you should be able to call a shit situation shit. I know that's not how the world works, but I personally see nothing wrong with it.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

This is interesting. 2017 games that were censored/banned. (https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/31/16836138/the-year-in-video-game-censorship)

Somehow Australia only got one entry on the list. New Zealand on the other hand looks like the new Australia banning multiple games.

Anime games seem to be consistently censored in the west and WWII games are obviously consistently censored in Germany.

Japan apparently has some aversion to extreme violence I didn't realise.

Overall not a bad year in censorship unless you really want underdressed anime characters in the west or Nazi symbology in Germany.
On that point I recently found quite bewildering. I bought the Japanese version of Witcher 3 and discovered that all the poor peasants had rather nice undergarments. Also, the brutal, gory world in which they live was less gory too.

Considering how I can easily get my hands on a game that allows you to shoot schoolgirls and see their under wear, or easily watch extremely gory anime and movies without any issue, I was somewhat taken aback that a ripped in half dude in the witcher had a cavity, whereas others had yucky bits.

The word works in strange ways. I ended up taking it back and got a refund, then bought the Australian version instead. Just ruined the atmosphere the strange inconsistency.

[jazzcomp]

Are the retro consoles sold in EB games any good?
I think I saw an Atari and Sega MegaDrive (or something like that).

I have a Sega Dreamcast that I still love to play when I have time.

[DELTAprime]

The Mega Drive is terrible according to reviews and many games on the console are not real Mega Drive games but rather some BS they threw together to pad the numbers.

https://www.gamespot.com/sega-genesis-flashback-classic-console-review/

The Atari was much better received but unless you have a ton of nostalgia for that era it's probably best just to play the games on archive.org as that era hasn't aged as well as the 8bit and 16bit eras have.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Used a voucher I got for Xmas to get the latest South Park game for the PS4. It was discounted to $39 :D

Of course I forgot that my son is now old enough to understand the language so I’ll only be able to play it when the kids are asleep and I myself am not exhausted which is basically never :rolleyes:

[i_amtrunks]

Did the same Trev, thanks to the staff at JB not changing their stickers over after New Years. It was $39 in big w anyway but a steal at that price.

Nearly finished the battlefront 2 campaign. Many reviews had it at 4 hours long, but my penchant for going and seeking the collectibles and my awful ability at the game has stretched it out to over 7 hours! :D

Doubt I’ll play offline and there are the arcade modes that should be entertaining. It is one gorgeous game, too bad the micro transactions debacle put many off purchasing it, I’m no shooter fan but I find it lots of fun!

[DELTAprime]

I've been playing a bunch of old games since Christmas, trying to get that pile of unplayed games down to size.

Started with Ducktales Remastered, I just have one level left to play in that game.

Also played a little of the Disney Afternoon Collection. I quickly realised that Ducktales was made way easier in the HD remaster purely by simplifying how Scrooges cain works.

Played about 10 hours of State of Decay, that game is amazing. If you want a horror based zombie game look elsewhere but if you want an open world action game that just happens to have zombies it's really cool.

Started Saints Row IV again, this time with the Re-Elected edition. I'm not long into the game but but I'm already at about 15% complete and most of what I've been doing is going after the Data Clusters that are spread all over the city. But it's awesome when The Touch starts playing on the in game radio while you're clearing out an alien structure.

Played a few rounds of Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition with the Ultra Street Fighter IV addon. It still feels like a much better game than Street Fighter V.

Metal Gear Solid 5. Yep, I still suck at those games without a radar.

Played the trail on Xbox One X of Watch Dogs 2, I'll pick it up when it's a lot cheaper.

Finally played a little Hitman, just wish I didn't have to pay extra for the GOTY stuff they brought out for it.

[shockNwave]

Recently went to see the new Jumanji movie and what a blast from the past at the start. A fellow metalhead playing Twisted Metal on the PS1 and just like the metalhead writing this post he was playing as Mr. Grimm the best character in the game.:D